Nice Fonts for Emacs
If you use emacs on windows you have seen how nice it can look, especially if you used the cool windows emacs installer (go with the patched version). Today the emacs wiki lead me down the path of nice looking fonts on Linux. I added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debs.peadrop.com edgy backports
deb-src http://debs.peadrop.com edgy backportsThen I imported the gpg key:
wget http://debs.peadrop.com/DD385D79.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -And then installed emacs-snapshot-gtk1:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot-gtkThen I changed my default-font, like so:
(set-default-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12")And now I start emacs like so:
emacs-snapshot-gtk --enable-font-backendWow, it looks really good. This gets you a pretty recent build from the emacs cvs repository, so there are some bugs. I’ve seen ediff really wig out, but overall it hasn’t been bad at all.
Footnotes
1I was already running emacs-snapshot-gtk actually, so I only had to do an aptitude upgrade after the update.
References:
http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/
http://debs.peadrop.com/dists/edgy/backports/
Posted by Bryan on December 18, 2006
